Firesheep
Short and sweet: a Firefox extension that exposes the fact that login cookies are transacted unencrypted for a lot of the biggest social networking sites -- meaning that you can…
Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Article via Ars Technica in which researchers discovered that Facebook may inadvertently be outing gay users to its advertisers. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/more-privacy-headaches-for-facebook-gay-users-outed-to-advertisers.ars
A new set of stories relating to Facebook and MySpace apps and identifiable information they share: Read about it here.
In a recent appearance at Canisius College, Chief Justice John Roberts addressed two interesting questions from the floor. One concerned the issue of televised oral arguments. Roberts expressed concern about…
Right on time for Halloween, a spooky post reminding us that creepy people offline + creepy people online = creepy people across domains. It never hurts to remember to always…
So, there has been a fair amount of talk about Google's Street View faux pas. Apparently, the data breach was more significant than some had anticipated. Apparently, among the bits…
Probably a good idea to keep an eye on lobbying efforts. Not that we don't all do this anyway, but it's the kind of thing that can fall under the…
From Ars Technica Article: "A New York-based mobile-web advertising company was hit Wednesday with a proposed class action lawsuit over its use of an HTML5 trick to track iPhone and…
Smart grid technology offers major improvements and efficiencies for our power system, creating a dynamically responsive grid that can do things like manage peak load energy consumption, optimize transmission routes,…
From Ars Technica: "Once upon a time, users who were careless about security posed a risk only to themselves. But, with the advent of pervasive networking and botnets, that's no…